Finance Updates – Page 11 – Finance Updates

Oil & Metals Under Pressure: How Trade Wars, Recession Fears & OPEC+ Output Are Shaping 2025

Oil prices fell about 3% to a four-year low, ...

China’s imposition of 34% tariffs on U.S. goo...

Growth-sensitive commodities including copper...

OPEC+ plans to increase output, forecast down...

AI Advances Push Down Long-Term Bond Yields as Consumption Growth Expectations Dim

Americas Markets Finance and Insurance

Releases of major generative AI models since ...

The pattern implies bond investors are revisi...

Short-term yields barely move, suggesting mar...

Forecasting platforms like Metaculus grow mor...

Asia Markets Kick Off 2026 with Mixed Moves Amid Thin Liquidity, AI & Policy Risks

Asia Markets Information

Asian trading was thinned by New Year holiday...

Among open markets, the Hang Seng fell, Shang...

Low liquidity and partial global closures, in...

Looking into early 2026, investors are focuse...

Goldman Sachs Bets on Asia as Dollar Weakens: What Investors Need to Know

Asia Markets Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

Goldman Sachs expects a structurally weaker U...

Positioning for this view, the bank has conso...

Asia and broader emerging markets are seen as...

Risks include potential U.S. economic resilie...

Corporate Bonds Rally: Tight Spreads & Yield Boosted, But Macro Risks Loom

Americas Markets Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

Investment-grade corporate bond spreads over ...

Despite compressed spreads, absolute yields a...

Demand vastly exceeds net supply, with heavy ...

However, limited room for further spread tigh...

Silver’s Tough Now, But Why Physical Silver Could Surge Later

Global Markets Finance and Insurance

A hedge-fund veteran who had been bullish on ...

Back-to-back CME margin hikes on silver futur...

China’s new export-licensing regime for refin...

Physical markets show high premiums and backw...

Bridgewater’s Pure Alpha Rallies 33% in 2025 on AI, Equities & Strategic Shift

Global Markets Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles

Bridgewater’s Pure Alpha macro fund returned ...

Other Bridgewater strategies also posted stro...

Results were driven by US equity and AI-stock...

Bridgewater is capping Pure Alpha’s size, inv...

Global Surge in University Spinout Funding: Deep Tech, Equity, and Pre-seed Trends

Global Markets Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles

Universities worldwide are rapidly launching ...

These vehicles range from small internal fund...

Data from the UK and Europe show academic spi...

Universities are increasingly acting as both ...

Why Private Equity Firms Are Selling GP Stakes to Unlock Liquidity in Tight Markets

Americas Markets Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles

Traditional PE exits like IPOs and strategic ...

GP-stake transactions and secondary-market ac...

Both GPs and LPs are driving this shift as th...

Top-tier firms can still secure favorable ter...

Morgan Stanley’s 2025 Year-End: Strong Gains, Key Risks, and What’s Next

Americas Markets Finance and Insurance

Morgan Stanley shares finished 2025’s final s...

U.S. equity indices also slipped on the last ...

Investors now turn to Morgan Stanley’s Januar...

Key 2026 themes include stretched tech/AI val...